For better or worse, I was thinking theologically in the shower this morning. Ponder, as I did, that once-common Unitarian Christian claim that “we don’t practice the religion about Jesus, but the religion ofJesus.” Well, I don’t believe that. However well we dig down to Jesus’ idea and ideal of religion, it comes mediated through… Continue reading The religion of what?
Category: Unitarian Universalists
Which UU churches will have Christian communion next week?
If there’s going to be one Christian service of communion in a Unitarian Universalist (or Universalist or Unitarian) churches in a year, it will probably be in Holy Week: at Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday or perhaps (a bit eccentric, but probably a surviving morsel of Victorian liberal theology) Good Friday. There’s a hint, but not… Continue reading Which UU churches will have Christian communion next week?
Box Populi for podcasting
Box Populi is a specialized Linux distribution for making obsolete desktop computers into efficient and easy-to-use podcast generators. It sounds so easy . . . . The MAKE magazine blog is touting it, as there’s a scheduled May installfest. I’m interested, in part because First Unitarian Church, Portland, Oregon uses it. (Note their webcast in… Continue reading Box Populi for podcasting
South Shore featured in Post
The Washington Post wrote Sunday about the charms of the South Shore, south of Boston, and refers specifically to Hingham Old Ship Church, which is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Indeed, I think there’s a Unitarian “First Parish” in each of these towns. I know this article says nothing new to several noteworthy… Continue reading South Shore featured in Post
Fellowship
I was so tied up getting Day Job (which started today!) that I failed to mention that the Ministerial Fellowship Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Association transferred my fellowship to Associate Fellowship standing. This is good news and and an appropriate step; the alternative would have been retiring my fellowship. Wherever I end up, I… Continue reading Fellowship
Prayer book volume review references King’s Chapel
Oxford University Press has put out a jolly useful title, The Oxford Guide to The Book of Common Prayer: A worldwide survey which I’ve checked out of the library twice and am prone to buying. A review this week in the Church Times reviews this work and makes reference to the section about the King’s… Continue reading Prayer book volume review references King’s Chapel